"Naturally my heroic phantasms - I think this istrue for many Frenchmen and Frenchwomen of my generation- usually have to do with the period of the Resistance, whichI did not experience firsthand; I wasn't old enough, and Iwasn't in France. When I was very young - and until quiterecently - I used to project a film in my mind of someonewho, by night, plants bombs on the railway: blowing up theenemy structure, planting the delayed-action device and thenwatching the explosion or at least hearing it from a distance.I see very well that this image, which translates a deepphantasmic compulsion, could he illustrated by deconstructiveoperations, which consists in planting discreetly, with a delayed-action mechanism, devices that all of a sudden puta transit route out of commission, making the enemy's movementsmore hazardous. But the friend, too, will have to liveand think differently, know where he's going, tread lightly."

"The first known mention of the word was in the third century AD in a book called Liber Medicinalis (sometimes known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus,[3] physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who in chapter 51 prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of a triangle:

"When we fill the jug, the pouring that fills it flows into the empty jug. The emptiness, the void, is what does the vessel’s holding. The empty space, this nothing of the jug, is what the jug is as the holding vessel. [...] But if the holding is done by the jug’s void, then the potter who forms sides and bottom on his wheel does not, strictly speaking, make the jug. He only shapes the clay. No – he shapes the void. [...]. The vessel’s thingness does not lie at all in the material of which it consists, but in the void that holds."